Four "who-ristic" questions to ask yourself when designing artificially intelligent educational technologies that will actually benefit people.
By Rod D. Roscoe, April 2023
How can we trigger the process of digital embodiment and corporeality in human-robot collaboration through extended reality and digitally enhanced environments?
By Daniela Mitterberger, October 2022
Using sound to levitate objects for creating displays that can deliver visual, auditory, tactile, and gustatory experiences.
By Ryuji Hirayama, Sriram Subramanian, October 2022
This interview explores the relationship between social computing technology and decolonization and the relationship between coloniality and computing research.
By Jordan Taylor, July 2022
Exploring the many approaches and issues involved in developing technologies for wellbeing---from including environmental concerns to building long-lasting, transdisciplinary partnerships both inside and beyond the academy.
By Xuhai Xu, September 2021
Though today we think of the web and social media as nearly synonymous, the technology of the early web made social interaction difficult. The author discusses her work creating some of the web's earliest social applications and asks why our interfaces for seeing and communicating with each other online are still so primitive.
By Judith Donath, March 2021
In Havana, technology enthusiasts have designed StreetNet, a community network that serves as an alternative to the worldwide web. This article describes the deeply relational practices that go toward the maintenance of StreetNet, highlighting elements of struggle that accompany innovative strategies that result from necessity.
By Michaelanne Dye, November 2019
Running on a treadmill or cycling on an exercise bike are often monotonous and hard-to-keep habits. Comparatively, social relationships in team sports play an important role to motivate participants. What happens when you combine both activities into one virtual environment?
By Luciana Nedel, Rodrigo Moni, Mateus Nunes, July 2019
New technologies that alter how we interact with other people come and go, creating new opportunities but also upending social norms. How should builders of new technologies consider the social implications of their systems?
By Amy X. Zhang, January 2019
Are you ready to meet your new teammates?
By Ece Kamar, December 2016
By Adrian Scoică, December 2016
Design Livre is a conversation about creative ways of resisting the bad effects of globalization, such as technological dependence. This article tells the story of how this conversation started, where is it going now, and what is the relevance of its underlying topics.
By Frederick M. C. van Amstel, Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto, June 2016
Although mobile technology has the power to vastly improve healthcare delivery in developing regions, many issues can affect the success of mHealth systems.
By Atanu Garai, December 2012
Lessons learned in planning and managing a development sprint to build a flexible, open source HL7 query service while successfully collaborating with diverse stakeholders and volunteers.
By Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne, December 2012
By Angela Crandall, Rhoda Omenya, December 2012
Industry and consumers need tools to help make decisions that are good for communities and for the environment.
By Leo Bonanni, June 2011
Translating ecological data into arresting images and sound require an artist's touch.
By Tiffany Holmes, June 2011
Exploring Twitter and live events by structure and context can shed light on what people think.
By David A. Shamma, December 2010
"Know thyself". Carved in stone in front of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, that was the first thing people saw when they visited the Oracle to find answers. The benefits of knowing oneself are many. It fosters insight, increases self-control, and promotes positive behaviors such as exercise and energy conservation.
By Ian Li, Anind Dey, Jodi Forlizzi, December 2009
Research related to online social networks has addressed a number of important problems related to the storage, retrieval, and management of social network data. However, privacy concerns stemming from the use of social networks, or the dissemination of social network data, have largely been ignored. And with more than 250 million active Facebook (http://facebook.com) users, nearly half of whom log in at least once per day [5], these concerns can't remain unaddressed for long.
By Grigorios Loukides, Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, December 2009
By Anna Ritchie, June 2009
By Daniel Lewis, September 2006
By Jarrod Trevathan, Wayne Read, August 2006
By G. Michael Youngblood, June 1999
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